Jeffrey Michael's Blog - Posts Tagged "magic"

I've uploaded the first 3 chapters for Goodreads members to read for free. Until my exclusivity contract with Amazon expires in around 3 weeks, you'll only be able to purchase the electronic version there for $0.99.

Yes, I finally got a proof that I'm happy with and have authorized distribution of the print version of my novel Alchemy, Sorcery & Magic: A New Age Begins. I'm so happy with this final version and many thanks go out to my cover creator, Dreamscape Covers (J.D. Stroude). The design is awesome. J.D. is a wealth of knowledge because not only is she an artist, she's also an author and has a lot of good advice.

I've already ordered some printed books that should be arriving in the next week or so. That being said, if you're interested I'll be running a contest through the first couple of weeks of March to give away some free copies of the book.

Yes, my KDP Select exclusivity contract ends today. While it was a great learning experience and showed me the value of proper marketing, it also hindered me in not allowing me to place my e-book for sale on other sites. Well while that was going on, I got my book published in paperback form and now it's ready to be distributed. I approved the proof last week and my first shipment of books were waiting for me on my doorstep when I got home last night.

Starting tomorrow I'm going to post my e-book both here on Goodreads and other sites. I'm really excited about the whole thing! Now that the first volume is starting to roll I'll be going back to my outline and start on the next volume of AS&M with the intent of having it completed no later than early fall next year. I'm hoping that my friends at DreamScape covers will have the time to create my next cover. The one for the first volume was awesome so I'll look to them for the next cover as well.

Well I didn't get much witing done over the summer months. My pool and bar were just too alluring to ignore. How can anything compete with a Scotch and cigar outside by the pool on a hot day? Even my dog Dean spent a lot of time cooling off in the pool with and without me. :) Needless to say, I'm behind on my personal schedule of completing the sequel to A New Age Begins (working title of Crossings). Naturally with that one behind schedule, I'm behind on "Not So Virgin Mary" as well, but never fear! Yes the pool is all buttoned up for the fall/winter/spring and it's getting too cold to sit anywhere but by the backyard bonfire where I can stay warm while I read.

The next step is to get back to writing again. I had to recreate my outline and character development process after, somehow, losing it electronically. But that's done and Crossings now should flow easily ... that is if I buckle down, set aside time to write and not go dancing, out to dinner, take advantage of one of the warm days to spend time in the sunshine, host a family cookout or any of a million other things the pop up in my time at home away from my day job.

I'll keep you posted a bit more regularly now that the summer is well over and fall is starting to impose it's weather patterns and chill in the air here in the New England area.

OK, so I'm a bit late on my next book! lol Yeah, the nice weather hit and I'd rather spend time out in the sun than inside writing but I did buckle down a bit and finish the manuscript to the second Alchemy, Sorcery & Magic volume called Crossings. Dreamscape covers did another awesome job on the cover. Now I'm anxiously waiting for the editor to finish up. Do you know how hard it is to keep from e-mailing her on the hour with ... "Is it done yet?" ... "Is it done yet?" ... "Is it done yet? Why NOT?!" Yep, I'm a perpetual 12 year-old. lol

I'll be posting a picture of the new cover soon and, hopefully, the finished product will be on the e-shelves followed by the printed copy in short order.

Well I've finally got the final touches made to the next in the Alchemy, Sorcery & Magic series. The title is Crossings and I just e-published to Amazon and Barnes & Noble. I just have to wait for the projects to be approved. Next up will be the final touches on the spine and back cover to get the printed version ready! Now it's on to the next project which is already well under way.

The next project is based on a true story of a woman born and raised in Brockton, Mass. It's the story of the life of an amazing woman who served in the Navy during WWII, worked in South Korea as an advisor to the Korean president Syngman Rhee, was captured by the North Koreans at the start of the Korean War, spent a couple of weeks in a POW camp, tortured then rescued by the U.S. Was she an OSS operative in WWII? Was she an agent of the fledgling CIA in S. Korea? Did she get dragged back into the covert world after military retirement? Those and many other questions are left up to you, the reader as you take in the story.

Hi all! Yes, as the title implies I made a trip to England and got a chance to visit Stonehenge in person. The whole trip was great but Stonehenge has been on my 'bucket list' for a long time and it's also a factor of my Alchemy, Sorcery & Magic series. I have to say that it was everything I had imagined and more. The whole thing in real life is quite impressive. Those stones are huge and the engineering required to drag them from the supposed origins and then to put them up and cap the ring with such large stones back in 3000 b.c. is just mind boggling! Face it there just wasn't the civilization around the area that the pyramids had in that era so how did they do it and WHO did it? Until actual time travel is developed we'll never know.